SOCL 2001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Swamp People, Felony Disenfranchisement, The Sociological Imagination
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Topics / terms / important people, etc. that appear in both the textbook and class presentations. Major perspectives: wright mills: author of the sociological imagination . Biological reductionism: trying to explain everything in a society through biology and genetics. Gemeinschaft: society that is more rural, has more traditional values, kinship, small communities. Durkheim: founder of functionalism, lived during the industrial revolution (social turmoil, change), goal was to make sociology more scientific, research included: social solidarity, social integration, anomie. Low division of labor = gemeinschaft (close, personal. High division of labor = gesellschaft (factories, office relationships) bureaucracies. Functionalism: a sociological perspective that focuses on the ways in which a complex pattern of social structures and arrangements contributes to social order. Marx: founder of the conflict theory from germany but settled in london and lived in poverty to avoid persecution(writings were controversial)
